PPT-Gerunds

More verbals baby Gerunds Gerunds are the base form of a verb an ing ending They function as NOUNS Example Frolick ing is relaxing I dislike knit t ing. a verbal ending in ing uses to name activities . Gerunds. Gerunds show action, so they act like verbs, but they also name, so they act like nouns by naming activities. . To see how they act like nouns, insert any of these phrases into any of the blanks: . Giving Advice: Using Gerunds and Conditionality. Overview. This week, students will work in small, same-gender groups to give advice, acting as the advice columnist . Lalla. Khadija or Si Hamid. . After the topic of “advice column” has been introduced and discussed, the students will be given the assignment to imagine they are an advice columnist for a Moroccan newspaper, either . Focus on Academic English. Why study them?. Gerunds and infinitives are common features of both spoken and written English. A person who tries . __________ . English without . __________ . gerund and infinitives will produce very unnatural-sounding sentences. . Grammar. A gerund is a verb form ending in –. ing. that is used as a noun. Gerunds, like nouns, can be used as subjects, predicate nominatives, direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of prepositions.. Phrases. A group of related words that lacks either a subject or a predicate or both. fearing an accident. at the lake’s edge. Categories of Phrases. I. Prepositional Phrases. A. Adjectival. B. Adverbial. Gerunds . Participles. Infinitives. Gerunds. A gerund is a verb form ending in . –. ing. . that is used as a noun. It is part verb and part noun. Formed by adding -. ing. to the plain form of the verb. Learning grammar is awesome!. What is a verbal?. When a verb form is used as a . noun. , an . adjective. , or an . adverb. , is it called a . verbal. .. Last time we talked about verb forms used as adjectives . VERBALS Gerunds A gerund is a verbal that ends in – ing and functions as a noun . It can take on the role of a subject, direct object, subject complement, and object of preposition. Gerund They function as nouns!. How a noun can function in a sentence:. Subject. Direct object. Indirect object. Predicate noun /predicate nominative. Object of the preposition. Noun as the Subject of a sentence. GERUND CLAUSES F GERUNDS, PARTICIPLES AND VERB AL NOUNS 1. The variety of ing forms 1.1 Preliminaries. Traditional grammars of English acknowledge the existence of two homonymous ING forms: the 1 Chapter 39 : Chapter 39 covers the following: the formation and use of gerunds and gerundives ; and the two different forms of gerundive purpose constructions. At the end of the lesson we Verbals. Participle. A . participle. is a verbal, which looks like a verb. And acts like an adjective. . Present participles end in –. ing. (as in swimming).. Past participle end in –. ed. (as in remembered),. What is a Verbal?. A . verbal. . is the . form of a verb used as a noun, . adjective, . or adverb.. Identifying verbals . in a sentence can . be somewhat . tricky – verbals are NOT . verbs. !. Gerunds. 김진아 . & . 유시현 . Approaches to English Grammar . Explanation . 유시현. (. Sihyeon. . Yoo. ). Overview. . 1. Basic Forms . 1) Infinitives. 2) Gerunds. 3). Bare infinitives . He. .